General 2022 MLB Postseason Thread

If they end up scoring again & losing in a tight game…

I think it’s more like one baserunner in a 2 out situation early when u have a superior bullpen to restore order.

It’s not like they had 2 guys on

but what would have been the downside?? you have video guys poised for this stuff. were they taking a leak??

extremely strange

Even if nothing came of it you need to fight for your guys, no?

in the postseason you tend to need absolutely everything to break your way.. a missed opportunity like that feels the same as like, getting picked off first. establishes the wrong vibe

I dunno man, Costas is really grating on me tonight. He’s so matter of fact and kind of won’t shut up

“Second guesses are always better than first guesses”
THANKS FOR THAT

Other than following Ramirez through the season, I didn't pay the least bit of attention to Cleveland all year. They've been so exciting the past couple of weeks, though, I feel lousy right now (and nothing at all to do with hating the Yankees, which I don't).

is guardos the accepted nickname? i like it much better than guards

top of the order, make it count lads

Aaron Boone: always snackin’

costas’ eddie haskell schtick is so relentlessly vapid and inane

Guy in the stands with the Chuckie doll is all time

I accept Guardos as the nickname wherever I roam.

Welp, those last two games fizzled out badly, here's hoping they can get some down on his luck HR hitter next year.

wandy “wandifferous” peralta - series mvp

Welp that’s a wrap on the season. The one silver lining is at least now I won’t have to hear Bob Costas and Ron Darling for awhile.

Sigh. It was a fun season, and playoff shots are hard to come by these days in Cleveburg, so I can't complain. Guardians have some glaring weak spots, and here's hoping the Dolans loosen the purse strings a bit. (Psych!)

I was actually eager to have Costas call baseball again -- maybe watching him in old Letterman clips has softened me on him -- but I obviously forgot about his overpowering nerd-smarm.

you have to think that an AI Costas would be at the easier end of potential implementations

*shows baby on screen*

Bob Costas: “The mind still developing, she does not know all her life leads to the inevitable arrival of death”

*batter looks at strike 3*

Bob Costas: “Unless we too are seated at the Right Hand”

Ron Darling: “Went back to the cutter on 2-2”

— Philadelphia Phillies Student (@sacketology) October 14, 2022

Costasian aphorisms

They write themselves suzyn

Go Goose

Is this game already over?

I'm sorry what was that?

All the way back, wow.

And now the lead

It's only fair after the first inning

Hey, Matt Carpenter's back.

bader is not a power hitter! he's on quite a streak now, though

i don't normally root for NYY but they have both bader and carpenter, and they're also against the astros

Hader looks unhittable

1 -1

Best of five

the Yankees struck out 17 times tonight

the Astros struck out twice

That 15-strikeout differential is the largest in a game in postseason history

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) October 20, 2022

It's starting to feel like this is the year that Dusty Baker finally wins a WS and rides off into the sunset.

Not shareable, but Posnanski has a Dusty column today (haven't read it yet):

That’s exactly what I want for Dusty. I so thoroughly and deeply loathe the “he can’t win the big one” narrative. Dusty Baker has had a remarkable and complicated managerial career. He has managed five teams — all of them broken in some way or another when he took over — and he has managed all five of them into the postseason at one point or another.

I’m pretty sure I could manage my way into the playoffs with some of those “broken” teams too

I thought the Astros job was challenging after the scandal, and they were sub-.500 in the COVID season. I didn't expect them to be so good in 2021/22, although a lot of personnel is the same, true.

Just tuning in, of course its tied.

All these check swings are becoming bullshit. MLB needs to fix this with being able to challenge in my opinion.

Pedro’s orange tie + Costas’ purple jacket= Joker

NYY gonna bring the muthafuckin’ ruckus

Slow motion Altuve thinking = vomit

Wow. Judge’s misplay just cost them 2 runs

That is a disputable out

was it a judge misplay? he should’ve called bader off but there was no need for bader to range so far into right

CF usually has the green light to get anything

i.e. other fielders should defer if there’s any question

Yankees' season starting the decent into the bowl. Shame.

v. sad